Bad Guys I

Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington
October 6 – 29, 2016

Bad Guys I is a series of acrylic paintings on hardboard and multimedia artboard that explore the ‘Face of Evil’.

Haughton writes: We love mug shots. The newspapers show us the faces of ‘bad guys’: serial killers and wife-beaters, terrorists and animal abusers, pederast priests and gang-bangers, rapacious corporate scam-artists and nasty racist small- town sheriffs. We are absorbed. We study with fervid fascination the face of the accused: we search the bone structure, the expression of the eyes, the skin color, the facial hair… striving to recognize a pattern reliably signaling ‘I am evil… I am dangerous’. We crave to discover some clue that would identify and warn of evil within, that would allow us warning, that would help us keep safe from harm our loved ones, and ourselves.

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Cedric Larry, Ford painter at Excel Industries, is accused of opening fire on co-workers at the Hesston, Kansas, company before he was fatally shot. Shootings also occurred at a location in nearby Newton, along with other areas in Hesston. Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said four people were killed, including Ford. Fourteen others were wounded, and at least five of those victims are in critical condition. One victim is in surgery and eight are in stable condition, he said. “This is just a horrible incident that has happened,” Walton said. “There’s going to be a lot of sad people here.” (KWCH-TV)

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Ronald Pritchett, 32, of Purvis, Mississippi, faces charges of second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and auto theft in the New Orleans suburb of Jefferson Parish, said Col. John Fortunato, spokesman for the sheriff there. Authorities say a man faces charges in Louisiana accusing him of killing his father and stabbing his mother because they ordered fast food and didn’t get any for him. Fortunato said in a news release that Pritchett became enraged about food. Asked by email for more details, he replied, “They ordered food from a fast food restaurant and didn’t include him.” Pritchett was arrested Thursday at a relative’s home near the town of Purvis, Mississippi, and waived extradition to Louisiana, Lamar County Sheriff Danny Rigel said.

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Doctors say that John Jonchuck, the man accused of throwing his daughter off a bridge January, is incompetent to stand trial. Jonchuck, who has struggled with mental illness for years, threw his daughter Phoebe, 5, off a Tampa Bay bridge Jan. 8, and she fell more than 60 feet. A police officer climbed down one of the bridge pylons but was unable to save the girl. Her body was found in the water several hours later.

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Branko Bogdanov: Prosecutors said over the past 10 years, the Northbrook family -- together with a cooperating individual who acted as its fence -- sold merchandise with a retail value of $7.1 million for a total of $4.2 million through their eBay accounts. The Bogdanovs were arrested Tuesday afternoon at their upscale, five-bedroom $1.4 million home on Weller Lane. Authorities seized the black dress, the charges alleged. During brief court appearances on a charge of interstate transportation of stolen property, federal prosecutors said they were seeking to detain all three as flight risks. The family is originally from the former Yugoslavia, and it was unclear if any of them are U.S. citizens. One Barnes & Noble security officer at a store outside Baltimore told agents she grappled with the family after she witnessed the mother put several American Girl dolls up her dress. The detective said Lela Bogdanov shoved her while her husband “began to grab the hood of her jacket, choking her,” according to the charges. The Bogdanov family, identified later by the detective in a photo array, fled in a gray mini-van. (Mug shot: CPD Photo – text Chicago Tribune)

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"Sister" Amy Duggan Archer-Gilligan (1901-1914) ran a private nursing home in Windsor, Connecticut, and married and killed 5 elderly men. She also convinced 9 elderly women to name her in their wills before poisoning them too. That last victim's family demanded an autopsy which showed clear signs of poisoning, and Amy spent the rest of her life in prison. The authorities found a total of 48 deaths in her nursing home, the "Archer Home for the Elderly and Infirm." (Wikipedia)

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Known as the "accountant of Auschwitz," Oskar Gröning, 93, is accused of working as a guard at the camp between May and June 1944, during which some 425,000 people passed through the death camp's doors, and accused and found guilty of accessory to murder. Gröning, who was responsible for handling the personal possessions and money of the camp's hundreds of thousands of victims, went on to testify that he believed the possessions and money he took from the incoming Jews no longer belonged to them, but instead were property of the state. "They didn't need it anymore," he said. The remark drew gasps from the audience, many of whom were Holocaust survivors or relatives of survivors. (photo – NBC news)

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Gregory Collins (AP photo)
A white man has been arrested after a black man was shot to death and then his body dragged for 10 miles along an American road. The body of 30-year-old Anthony Hill was found yesterday morning in central South Carolina. Police followed a trail of blood to the mobile home of Gregory Collins, 19. They demanded he come out - but he refused. After a three-hour stand-off, police forced him out by using tear gas. He was wearing an empty gun holster. Sheriff Lee Foster, who has been in law enforcement for 35 years, told a local news conference it was 'one of the top three most violent crime scenes he's ever seen'. Police believe Hill was killed at Collins' mobile home with a shot to the head, and then his body dragged behind a pickup truck. 'That is the part that's absolutely senseless,' Sheriff Foster said. 'Why would somebody do that to a person after they were dead?' Police said the killing is being investigated as a hate crime. So far they have been unable to find a motive. Hill and Collins worked together at the Louis Rich turkey factory in Newberry, South Carolina. Collins has been charged with murder.

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Myra Hindley and Ian Brady carried out the ‘Moors murders’ between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around what is now Greater Manchester, England. The victims were five children aged between 10 and 17—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans—at least four of whom were sexually assaulted. The murders are so named because two of the victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered on the moor in 1987, more than 20 years after Brady and Hindley's trial in 1966. The body of a fourth victim, Keith Bennett, is also suspected to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered. (Wikipedia)

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Police have identified the man arrested Friday for causing a SWAT standoff by barricading himself in a car in the area of Ridgedale Avenue and Lamb Boulevard. Mitereo Ramirez, 29, of Las Vegas, is currently in isolation at Clark County Detention Center. He faces charges of attempted murder of a police officer, assault with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm from a vehicle and resisting a police officer with a firearm. Police said the incident started just after 7 a.m. Friday when they received a call from a person who reported he found an unknown man sleeping inside his vehicle. When police arrived, the man refused to get out of the car. After a SWAT team arrived in an attempt to get the man to surrender peacefully, he fired several shots from inside the vehicle. No one was struck. At about 11:30 a.m., SWAT pumped gas into the vehicle and the man finally exited the car armed with a handgun. Ramirez then dropped the gun and tried to flee by jumping over a wall. Officers and K-9 units took him into custody following a short struggle. Ramirez received minor injuries. (Photo LVMPD)

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Brahim Abdeslam (Getty) “The men dance to their favorite rapper, Lacrim, in a nightclub on Brussels' chic Avenue Louise. Brahim Abdeslam, clearly visible, with a cigarette in his hand, flirts with a blond girl, while his younger brother Salah, dressed in an orange sweatshirt, whoops along with the group in the background. This is a side of the Paris attackers that has never been seen before. The date is February 8, 2015. Just months later, Brahim would blow himself up at a cafe in Paris's 11th arrondissement. His suicide was part of a deadly ISIS mission that would kill 130 people and injure hundreds more. Salah would become the only known member of that cell to survive and go on the run”.

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Ronell Wilson (Mugshot NYPD) from NYT. Prosecutors alleged Wilson was the leader of a violent drug gang called the Stapleton Crew (witnesses at the trial denied using that label) that originated in the Stapleton Projects on Staten Island. He was convicted for murdering NYPD Detectives James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews in a gun sale, then searching their bodies and stealing their car. Wilson later bragged to his fellow gang members, “I popped them,” and dumped the bodies in the middle of a Staten Island street. His first sentence of death was overturned because of a procedural error. Wilson was retried and sentenced to death a second time in 2013.
Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn, NY subsequently decided that Wilson cannot be executed because he meets the legal definition of mental retardation. The judge issued a 76-page decision, in which he wrote: “In reaching this decision, the court in no way minimizes or even excuses the cruelty and depravity of Wilson’s actions. Having presided over this tragic case for more than a decade, the court quite frankly finds it impossible to muster any sense of sympathy for this defendant. The court also recognizes with great sadness the pain that this decision is likely to cause for the families of James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews. Regardless of one’s views on the death penalty, these families have suffered enough.”